"The sun teaches to all things that..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

“I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.”

“People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

“Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.”

“War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.”

“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .”

“Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.”

“Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.”

“Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.”